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JOHN HARDENThe Shorthorn senior staff

Arlington is accepting bids until next week for a $2.2 mil-lion public plaza and landscape improvements project near the special events center.

The Public Works and Trans-portation department will stop accepting bids for the UTA Cen-ter Street Project at 2 p.m. Tues-day.

Work assigned to the project includes adding a public plaza lo-cated at the corner of Center and

Mesquite streets near the special events center, said Alicia Winkel-blech, Arlington’s transportation planning manager.

The city council will review each bid and award the contract to the contractor who meets all the requirements.

The public plaza will add storm sewers, open space, side-walks, gardens, park furnishings and area lighting.

The North Central Texas Coun-cil of Governments will fund the multimillion-dollar project and construction is expected to begin this spring.

The project’s construction is

City accepting bids for plaza project

ARLINGTON

The Center Street Project will complement the special events center, campus official says.

BY JOHNATHAN SILVERThe Shorthorn senior staff

After a second robbery at-tempt reportedly took place at Lot 49 on Tuesday night, UTA Police are increasing patrol and distributing crime bulletins to the community.

According to police, at 8:45 p.m. Tuesday a passenger in a silver four-door vehicle report-edly yelled at a student to drop her bag.

Another female student re-ported a similar experience the night before when she told police a passenger in a four-door sedan tried to rob her, but fled after she ran away.

Rick Gomez, UTA Police as-sistant chief, said both incidences had the same methods of opera-tion. In both cases, the men ap-proached the student by car, and the passenger leaned out of the car and told the women to drop their purses. In the first case, the student reported that the man carried a stun gun, whereas the second student reported that the passenger carried a gun. The stu-dent parking lot is located on the south part of campus.

Gomez said the two incidences

Student reportssecond Lot 49robbery attempt

SAFETY

Police on alert after two students report similar incidents in parking lot.

BY SHELBY WEIRThe Shorthorn staff

Covered in mystical purples and blues, Cheri Butler sat be-hind a cosmic tablecloth. She had all the getup of a classic fortuneteller, minus the crystal ball.

The Career Services Office associate director didn’t always plan on looking into the future, but got her chance Wednesday.

Career Services kicked off Ca-reer Month with a carnival in the University Center Palo Duro Lounge.

While there were no clowns — a fortuneteller, ringmaster and Blaze were all in atten-dance.

Career Services director Bar-bara Peet played the role of ringmaster.

“The coat fit, so I volun-teered,” she said. “I mean, how many chances are you going to

get to play ringmaster?”Students could enjoy free

cotton candy, popcorn and hot chocolate. Some of the booths included tic-tac-toe, a hoop shot and ring toss.

“My favorite game was the hoop shot,” architecture junior Janet Sandoval said. “I made every shot and I got a free Fris-

bee.”Sandoval is currently look-

ing for a job, which she said is part of what attracted her to the carnival.

“I haven’t found a job yet,” she said. “This is my first time to do anything with Career Ser-vices, and it’s very fun and in-teracting.”

Career Services wanted to host an event where students could learn something as well as have a good time, said Jasmine Chavers, administrative assis-tant for Career Services.

“We wanted to have a fun event so students can be aware

Students step up to learning at career carnival

STUDENT LIFE

Career Services hosted the event complete with cotton candy, games and a ring master.

The Shorthorn: Andrew Buckley

Senior guard Dwight Gentry II is fouled while attempting a layup Wednesday during the second half of the Mavericks’ 71-66 win over the Texas A&M Corpus Christi at Texas Hall. Gentry contributed seven points, two rebounds and two assists to the victory.

FOUL PLAY

POLICEAnyone with information regarding the robbery attempts is encouraged to call UTA Police at 817-272-3381

BY JUSTIN SHARPThe Shorthorn staff

Personnel in the Planeterium are waiting to install a final software update during spring break, which would have 3-D functions.

The upgrade for Digistar 4, the planetarium’s projection system, costs roughly half a million dollars. Once the software patch is installed this spring, the projectors will pro-vide not only brighter and sharper pictures, but 3-D and interactive functions as well.

“After the final patch is installed, one of the features will be driving the planetarium screen like a spaceship on a virtual tour of the solar system,” Planetarium Director Levent Gur-demir said.

The upgrade won’t be complete

3-D feature gets closer to completion

SCIENCE

The Planetarium will be the first in Texas to use the newest Digistar 4 technology.

The Shorthorn: Raziq Brown

Accounting junior Powers Bilodeau mans the “Hat Trick” game at the Career Services Carnival on Wednesday in the University Center Palo Duro Lounge. Bilodeau is a career ambassador who helps advertise Career Services activities.

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The Shorthorn: Will LaVoncher

NAME GAMEFrom center left, sociology junior Stephanie Moran, mechanical engineering sophomore Chidie Okparaojiako and psychology junior Rebecca Butler participate in playing a name game Wednesday night in the Palo Duro Lounge. The Student Alumni Association held a student recruitment social to gain new members. They played games, answered questions and had free food.

Junior faculty member awarded $462,000SCIENCE

Yue Deng, physics assistant professor, will use the grant for weather research.

BY JUSTIN SHARPThe Shorthorn staff

Physics assistant profes-sor Yue Deng was awarded a $462,000 grant by the Na-tional Science Foundation.

The Faculty Early Ca-reer Development Program grant, announced on Jan. 13, is known as a CAREER grant and is for selected ju-nior faculty who are begin-ning new research that has practical applications and can be assimilated into a teaching curriculum.

According to a document from the NSF, CAREER awards will build a firm foundation for a lifetime of leadership in integrat-ing education and research. It supports junior faculty members who exemplify the role of teacher-scholars through outstanding re-search.

Her work focuses on weather disturbances in the upper atmosphere caused by intense currents flowing

from the magnetosphere.Physics professor Ramon

Lopez said in practical ap-plication, this research should allow scientists to predict the effects of these occurrences on satellite tracking and power grids.

Deng said she was very excited, but wary as she was not completely sure she had actually gotten the grant be-cause of a slight language barrier. She called her men-tor, Lopez, who confirmed that she had won the award.

“I felt so lucky and thank-ful to my collaborators, the department and my family,” Deng said.

Physics Chair Alexander Weiss stressed the impor-tance of receiving the grant.

“The CAREER grant is a vote of confidence in her fu-ture research,” he said. “It’s a big honor.”

Deng said she plans to continue working in the field of space physics, focus-ing mainly on Earth’s upper atmosphere, but she is con-templating expanding her research out into the solar system.

“Possibly, I will extend

my interest to other planets, such as Mars,” she said.

Science Dean Pamela Jansma had high praise for the young scientist.

“Dr. Deng is an outstand-ing scientist who is fully deserving of this award and we are extremely pleased that she has joined us here at UTA,” Jansma said. “It is wonderful to see the rec-ognition for a female junior faculty member in physics, a field which has not histori-cally attracted large num-bers of women.”

Deng started teaching this semester, spending a semester focusing on her re-search and putting her pro-posal together.

She said that the facili-ties and faculty support here were very helpful.

“It was a plus for my pro-posal,” she said.

So far, the response to her teaching has been posi-tive.

“She’s a good scientist and she’s going to be a great teacher, too,” Lopez said.

JUSTIN SHARPnews-editor.shorthorn@uta.edu

The Shorthorn: Michael Minasi

Yue Deng, assistant professor of physics, received an award known as the CAREER grant from the National Science Foundation on Jan. 13 for her new research. By participating in the NSF educational program Deng will be able to incorporate her research into her teaching.

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Thesis and Dissertation Formatting: 4 p.m.-6 p.m. 340 Business Building. For infor-mation, contact Lisa Berry at lberry@uta.edu

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Suspicious CircumstancesAn officer was dispatched at 1:07 p.m. in regards to a student who said she was having a disagreement with her room-mate and received concerning text mes-

sages from the subject at Arlington Hall on 600 Pecan St. The hall director was notified. The case was cleared.

Suspicious Circumstances Police were dispatched at 2:34 p.m. in regards to a student, who did not pay for her meal, making threatening remarks to a faculty member when she was informed that her meal ticket had expired at the University Center Connection Cafe. The student will receive a disciplinary referral. The case was cleared.

Burglary, Office/Building Officers were dispatched at 3:28 p.m. to 301 Center St. to meet with a staff mem-ber reporting that a laptop and docking station was stolen from an office. The case is active.

Suspicious Person Officers were dispatched at 8:16 p.m. in regards to a suspicious person looking into cars at Centennial Court apartments on 820 Bering Drive. The non-student was

posting fliers on several vehicles. The subject was issued a criminal trespass warning. The case was cleared.

Robbery Officers were dispatched at 9:02 p.m. to Davis Hall at 1101 Cooper St. to take a report of an attempted robbery at Lot 49, which is located across Cooper Street. from Centennial Courts apartments. The case is active.

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of our career month,” she said. “We want students to know what we offer at Ca-reer Services.”

This is the first year career month has started with a carnival.

When students first en-tered they got a card with a series of questions. Each one focused on something career-related and could be answered after completing each game at the different booths.

Once students had com-pletely answered every-thing on their card, they could turn them in for a chance to win a digital camcorder.

“Our goal for the carni-val was to raise awareness,” Peet said. “At each station they learned an answer. We wanted students to walk out with information.”

Environmental science graduate Vinodh Valluri

attended to see what Ca-reer Services had to offer, he said.

“People probably got the idea that this event will be much more formal,” he said. “But it was much more fun than that.”

Valluri said that one thing he learned was that

80 percent of job hires are found through networking.

“That was an eye-open-er,” he said. “I am learning to use a Web site called myplan.com to create my profile.”

Shelby Weirnews-editor.shorthorn@uta.edu

Carnivalcontinued from page 1

may be related.“We have different de-

scriptions of the vehicles used and the persons who demanded that the females drop their purses,” he said. “We still think it may in-volve the same suspects.”

Police have sent out e-mail notifications through-out campus as of Wednes-day afternoon.

“We plan on increas-ing our contacts with the public to identify persons on campus who seem sus-picious or appear out of place,” Gomez said.

University spokeswom-an Kristin Sullivan said the police need the campus community’s help.

“Surely someone saw this,” she said. “We need potential witnesses to call in.”

One person whom police are looking for is a Hispan-ic woman in her 20s, who allowed the first student into her car after she fled the potential robbers, Sul-livan said.

The student didn’t catch the woman’s name. Sul-livan believes the driver attends UTA because the student reported seeing a backpack in the car. Police need to find that woman so that she could help with the investigation, Sullivan said.

Aerospace engineering junior Fatima Hamza said she’s not worried about being robbed, but thinks it shouldn’t be too expensive to install cameras in park-ing lots.

“If there are cameras, you’ll be less inclined to do something stupid,” she said.

Sullivan said students responded well to the uni-versity’s warnings during the fall’s cell phone theft se-ries by not traveling alone. She said students should heed the advice once again.

“It is imperative that students know that it is not okay to walk across campus alone at night,” she said.

Johnathan Silvernews-editor.shorthorn@uta.edu

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by rachel SnyderThe Shorthorn staff

Famous figures such as George Washington Carver and Earvin “Magic” Johnson can be found on the Central Library sec-ond floor — or a display of books about them at least.

Library reference as-sistant Kathleen Houston put the display together. The display will be up for the remainder of February.

The display features books about or by John-son, Carver and Wallace “Wally” Amos Jr., founder of Famous Amos Cookies.

“The exhibit that is up for Black History Month consist of a poster with the theme for this year ‘The History of Economic Empowerment,’” Houston said. “The poster lists the 10 people that have con-tributed through their suc-cess to the history of black empow-erment.”

Ava Nell Har-ris, the informa-tion and content librarian for hu-manities, said she ordered some of the books featured in the display, such as Unbought and Unbossed written about Shirley Chisholm, the first African-American woman elected to Congress.

Nell Harris said she is happy with the way the display turned out and its highlight of Black History Month.

She said the library tries to highlight under-represented groups that are important to Texas history and development. Hispanics, Native Ameri-cans, Asian-Americans are

among the groups the li-brary features in displays.

Nell Harris said she hopes students respond to the display by wcheck-

ing out the books and materials and learning about the people represented in the display.

“It’s important to highlight the accompl ishment of all people who contributed to this country,” she said.

E d u c a t i o n sophomore Paige Dang said she hadn’t noticed the display before, but thought hav-

ing a display highlighting minority groups is a good idea.

“It is good because this school has a lot of minority groups represented and I think it would be beneficial for students to learn about other cultures,” she said.

rachel Snydernews-editor.shorthorn@uta.edu

Display focuses on prominent black AmericansThe exhibit in the Central Library will be up through February.

The Shorthorn: Aisha Butt

A Black History Month display is set up in the Central Library on the second floor. Black History Month originally started as a week- long event but evolved into a month-long celebration in 1976.

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February. Look for this icon highlighting

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upcoming career ServiceS activitieS

How to Get a Federal Job12:30-2 p.m. Feb. 10 University Center Concho

Internship Workshop1 p.m.-2 p.m. Feb. 11University Center Guadalupe

International Student Workshop2 p.m.-3:30 p.m. Feb. 12Swift Center

Resume Critiques10 a.m.-2 p.m. Feb. 15-18University Center Palo Duro Lounge10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Feb. 19Business Building First Floor

Foyer

How to be successful at the Job Fair1:30 p.m.-3 p.m. Feb. 16University Center Palo Duro Lounge

Etiquette Dinner5:30 p.m. -7:30 p.m. Feb. 17 University Center Carlisle Suite

Job Fair10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Feb. 24Maverick Activities Center

For more information, contact the Career Services Office at careers@uta.edu

until the final software patch, which will be avail-able March 19.

The university’s plane-tarium system is currently the most advanced and expensive in the state of Texas and will be the first to use the newest Digistar 4 technology.

“In general, the Digi-star 4 technology is far su-perior to the old light bulb in a room,” physics gradu-ate student Ian Howley said.

Howley said it is a great new tool but he cautions that technology shouldn’t be too heavily relied upon.

“It’s important not to lose the personal side of the planetarium experi-ence,” he said.

Gurdemir expects it to have a role in UTA’s col-

lege town initiative.“It will be an important

attraction for the future downtown Arlington,” he said.

Physics Chair Alexan-der Weiss was one of the early advocates for the Planetar-ium to be built in the Chemis-try and Physics Building and was supportive of ac-quiring the new technology.

“I think it was an important up-grade,” he said. “There’s a big difference in the quality from the original digital technol-ogy.”

In addition to shows for the community, the Planetarium is used to create original content for new shows based on cur-rent scientific data. Two grants from NASA have

been awarded for the cre-ation of new content.

“That’s part of our mis-sion, to get knowledge into the public’s hands, to the citizens of the state of Texas,” Weiss said.

The planetari-um is an attrac-tion for the Ar-lington commu-nity, and the ad-dition of the new technology could draw people who have not yet at-tended viewings, like interdisci-plinary studies junior Thomas Ketchersid.

“I’d probably go anyway, but it sounds like an interesting and new way of seeing the Solar System,” he said.

JuStin Sharpnews-editor.shorthorn@uta.edu

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The Shorthorn: Andrew Buckley

Arif Mahmood, STEM graduate teaching assistant, serves during a game of ping-pong Wednesday at the Maverick Activities Center. Mahmood says that he tries to play a few times a week.

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upcoming black hiStory month eventSA Crystal Stair: “Journey Through Oppression”When: 6:30 p.m. todayWhere: UC Bluebonnet Ball-room

A Place at the Table for Mi-nority Students at Tradition-ally White InstitutionsWhen: noon, Feb. 12Where: Central Library sixth floor

The African-American Experi-ence PanelWhen: noon, Feb. 17Where: UC Concho Room

Empowering Our FutureWhen: 8 a.m.-noon, Feb. 20Where: University Hall

“It will be an important attraction for the future downtown Arlington.”

Levent Gurdemir, Planetarium director

lot locationA second robbery attempt in Lot 49 was reported Tuesday evening.

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By Clint UtleyThe Shorthorn sports editor

Wednesday night’s men’s basketball game between Ut Arlington and texas A&M-Corpus Christi was supposed to be a battle between Mav-erick senior guard Marquez Haynes and Islander senior forward Kevin palmer.

the fans at texas Hall were treated to a different show. Neither Haynes nor palmer reached their season scoring averages but the Mavericks (11-9, 3-4 southland Confer-ence) defeated the Islanders (11-10, 5-2 sLC) 71-66 in an overtime victory.

the Islanders started over-time on top, with three early points. senior guard Brandon Long answered with a three-pointer from the corner to tie the game at 62-62. Later in overtime, Long hit another three-pointer with 2:08 left on the clock to give the Mavs a three-point lead, 69-66. sophomore forward LaMar-cus reed III sank two free throws to seal the victory.

Men’s head coach scott Cross said after the game that the UtA team is transforming into what he envisioned at the start of the season — one of hard work and toughness.

“the team is a blue-collar type of team,” he said. “We just grinded that game out. We won with defense, we won by playing hard. that’s the type of team we have to be in order to win games.”

that type of team took a while to get going, both teams did. the Islanders took a 27-25 lead into halftime al-though Haynes hit a buzzer-beating jumper to cut the lead to two. the Mavericks shot 17 percent from three-point range in the first half com-pared to 14 percent from the Islanders.

the two teams’ shoot-ing improved after the first half. UtA shot 43 percent in the second half and over-time. senior guard Brandon Long scored 19 points and

shot 55 percent from three-point range. Haynes added 20 points to lead the team.

Long said the Mavs are ca-pable of playing as well as the best teams in the conference.

“We just started off slow,” he said. “It shows that we can play with the best of the best in the conference.”

Although the senior guards shared most of the scoring re-sponsibility, Cross said anoth-er senior’s rebounding had a big impact.

“tommy Moffitt,” he said. “It’s a team thing, but tommy Moffitt comes in and he grabs 10 rebounds. If he didn’t grab those 10 rebounds, we lose that game.”

the Mavs were out-rebounded 41-39, but against a bigger lineup, Cross was

comfortable with his team’s ability to compete.

“they were 35th in the country in rebounding mar-gin,” he said. “they’re out-rebounding teams by 5 1/2 a game.”

the Islanders’ leading scorer, palmer, was held to 16 points by the Maverick de-fense. Haynes said the return of Moffitt and junior forward trey parker to the paint has impacted the team.

“their impact is experi-ence,” he said. “they’ve seen it all down there. they’ve been through the wars. they know what to expect. they can even anticipate it before it hap-pens.”

Clint Utleysports-editor.shorthorn@uta.edu

Mavs sink Islanders in overtime victory

men’s BasketBall

By sam mortonThe Shorthorn staff

the first official base-ball practice of the de-cade kicked off this week amidst 40 degree temper-atures at Clay Gould Ball-park with a giant question mark still to be answered.

Can a team featuring 10 incoming freshmen grow up fast enough to win the southland Con-ference?

one thing’s for certain. this team will have a lot of eyes on it this season.

With a couple of area scouts and a Detroit ti-gers’ cross-checker in at-tendance on Monday, the stage is set for junior out-fielder Michael Choice to lead this 2010 team.

“For Mike, he’s just got to go out and play,” head coach Darin thomas said. “I’ve seen a lot of people, not just on our club but on other clubs, put a lot of pressure on themselves early in the year, and then they usually settle down and just start playing their game.”

thomas said Choice and ju-nior catcher Chad Comer are two players that are expected to lead the team because it is their third year to start.

Choice insists he doesn’t feel any added pressure of being looked upon for leadership.

“I don’t feel like it’s any different than the year be-fore,” he said. “I mean, I felt like a leader even when I was younger than most everyone else. I felt that guys still looked up to me just because of what I do on the field, so I just try to lead by example on the field and off the field.”

Despite a program boasting alumni current-ly playing in the major leagues such as ryan roberts, Hunter pence, Adam Moore and John Lackey, this season marks the first time scouts have made the trip to Arling-ton to watch an inter-squad scrimmage, such as the one played Monday.

“they’ve been out here almost every day, so I kind of expected that,” Choice said. “the main thing is not to let it pressure you because it can get pretty hectic, ‘cause you want to

do good, obviously.”He said when he

doesn’t perform well, he tells himself that it’s early.

“they understand I haven’t seen a live pitch since mid-october, so I don’t let it get to me,” he said.

Choice won’t be alone in providing a leadership role this season, with two other preseason first team All-sLC players return-ing in Comer and junior starting pitcher rett Var-ner.

thomas noted that Comer’s work with the younger pitchers is im-portant in developing their pitches and getting them in prime position to succeed.

“Chad does a great job. that’s one position we’re very fortunate to have back,” thomas said. “Last year I thought he was the best defensive catcher in the conference, and this year he was voted pre-season First team All-sLC, so the other coaches thought so too.”

the other side of that leadership battery is Var-ner, who returned to Ut Arlington this season de-

spite being draft-ed in the 34th round of the 2009 MLB Draft by the Chicago Cubs.

“All the fresh-men I’ve helped out and all the guys that we’ve got know a lot about what they’re doing,” he

said. “It’s just a matter of getting them out there and getting experience. With hitting you can get out there and swing for hours in a day and get better, but with throwing you can’t just go out there and throw forever and ever. You have to find a quality over quantity bal-ance.”

While Monday’s intra-squad scrimmage wasn’t played in the most ideal weather for baseball, it showed a lot of what these players are capable of doing.

Choice said there’s competition between re-turning and incoming players.

“Everybody’s out here still playing hard trying to get better,” he said. “there’s a lot of young guys competing for spots, so they have no choice but to play hard because they want to win a spot.”

sam mortonsports-editor.shorthorn@uta.edu

First practices show team readiness

BaseBall

Team looks to junior outfielder Michael Choice for leadership.

Junior guard tamara simmons had 21 points, but it wasn’t enough as texas A&M-Corpus Christi used a late sec-ond-half spurt to pull away with a 72-66 vic-tory Wednesday night at Corpus Christi.

the Mavericks were leading 60-59 with 6:19 left in the game, and then the Islanders took the lead for good with 56 seconds remaining by going on a 21-6 run to close out the game.

In a game that went back and forth with seven lead changes and six ties, the Mavericks were down at halftime 35-33 and shot 46.7 per-cent from the floor in the first half. the Mavericks came out after halftime by going on a 15-6 run to increase their lead to 11, but several second-

chance points by the Islanders quickly evapo-rated the Maverick lead. the Mavericks did finish the game with a season-low five turnovers.

simmons, who had 14 points last game, talked about her play.

“I just try to stay ag-gressive, keep attacking, get to the basket,” she said. “Not always rely on the three and take what the defense is giving me.”

the Islanders now have a three-game win-ning streak. the Mavs have now fallen to 8-12 overall and 3-4 in south-land Conference play.

the Mavericks will go on the road again this saturday to take on a 12-8 Northwestern state team in Natchitoches, La.

—travis Detherage

Mavs get seasick against Islanders

women’s BasketBall

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Senior guard Marquez Haynes leaps between Islander defenders Shamar Coombs (33) and Marcus Hammonds (30) during the Mavericks’ 71-66 overtime win against Texas A&M-Corpus Christi on Wednesday at Texas Hall. Haynes is one 30-point game away from breaking the UTA record for most 30-point games in a season.

sports Quoteworthy“We’re a good team, we know we’re a good team and the people we play against know we’re a good team. We established that last year. and right now we’re a better team than when the season ended in 2009. I admit, in the past, I’ve been more optimistic this time of year than maybe our talent warranted. that’s just the nature of the business. but at the moment, it’s legit.”

texas rangers third baseman michael young on his team’s chances for the 2010 mlB season

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Women’s Tennis1 p.m. Friday at Richmond

2 p.m. Saturday at Old Dominion

Men’s Track and FieldFriday at The New Balance Collegiate Invitational in New York CitySaturday at The New Balance Collegiate Invitational and at Wichita State in New York City

Women’s Track and FieldFriday at The New Balance Collegiate Invitational in New York CitySaturday at The New Balance Collegiate Invitational and at Wichita State in New York City

Men’s Basketball7 p.m. Saturday at Texas Hall against Northwestern State

Women’s Basketball2 p.m. Saturday at Northwestern State

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9Women’s basketball rank in scoring defense in Southland Conference

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Senior guard Brandon Long shoots as he jumps through defenders dur-ing the Mavericks’ win over the Islanders on Wednesday at Texas Hall.

“everybody’s out here still playing hard trying to get better,”

michael Choicejunior outfielder

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Two years ago, the Delta Upsilon fraternity hoped for a new house on Greek Row Drive. Instead, an old, smudged sign reading “Coming 2009” currently stands alone in the lot.

The fraternity is hav-ing trouble finding lenders for the house because of the economy, said chapter alumni adviser Carl Es-posito.

The fraternity sold their Abram Street house — one of the oldest homes in Ar-lington — for around $200,000. T h a t money is r e s e r v e d to build a new house, w h i c h will cost a p p r o x i -mately $500,000. A few months later, a ground-breaking ceremony was held in April 2008 on the reserved land at the corner of Greek Row and Davis drives.

Since the groundbreak-ing, the fraternity in-creased its membership from 19 to 25, pending the end of this week, since Rush brings more mem-bers.

UTA owns ground rights to the property, next to the Phi Gamma Delta frater-nity house, and the chap-ter would own the house. University spokeswoman Kristin Sullivan said the university wants to help the fraternity if possible. There are deadlines on ground leases, but the pe-

riod can be extended.The new two-story

structure will house about 12 members and include a wraparound porch.

The Housing Corpora-tion, a 10-member board comprised of chapter alumni, and the university have tried working with about 20 local and na-tional banks to get loans, but every deal has fallen through since.

“Current members want a house,” said corporation president Scott Reading. “They deserve a house.”

Fraternity president Nick Valdiri said having a house is useful but not necessary.

“We’ve still been able to keep up with everyone else as far as recruitment and

g r a d e s go,” the a c c o u n t -ing ju-nior said. “Having a house isn’t e v e r y -thing.”

T h e fraternity simply had bad timing in trying to build a home, Reading said.

Esposito said the house is going to happen eventu-ally — hopefully when the market improves.

“The economy isn’t going to be this way for-ever,” he said. “As things improve, we’ll be in a posi-tion to move forward.”

For now, the corpora-tion is attempting to pur-sue private donations and is looking into lending from the fraternity’s na-tional headquarters.

“At the time, we thought we’d be able to get money pretty quickly,” Reading said. “We have more than enough equity to put down for the lender.”

Esposito said that no

other Greek organization has approached the uni-versity about leasing the land.

Former fraternity presi-dent Agapito Flores said he’s just waiting for the

best.“It’s out of our hands,”

the history senior said.Valdiri said the lack of

funds limits the organiza-tion.

“That should be ex-

pected in this economy,” he said. “It’s a challenge to overcome it, but it makes us better.”

Joan Khalafnews-editor.shorthorn@uta.edu

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integrated with the con-struction of the special events center, said univer-sity spokeswoman Kristin Sullivan.

Sullivan said the Cen-ter Street project is a col-laboration project between the university and the city and it will complement the university’s special events center.

“There isn’t any open green space around the campus,” she said. “The overall purpose of this is to create a place where people can easily walk to without having to leave the cam-pus.”

Like the special events center, the Center Street project is integrated into the city and university’s master plan to create a col-lege town environment in downtown Arlington, she said.

The Center Street proj-ect was designed by Ar-lington landscaping com-pany Schrickel, Rollins and Associates. The com-pany also helped to re-store UTA’s Trading House Creek, which runs along

the southwest edge of the campus.

According to Arling-ton’s graduate engineer Daniel Burnham, the con-tractor must comply with Leadership in Energy and Environment Design re-quirements. Also known as LEED.

LEED’s environmental rating system was devel-oped by the U.S. Green Building Council, said Mike Opitz, LEED re-

source development vice president.

Opitz said the system is used as a benchmark for design, construction and operation of environmen-tally safe buildings.

The ratings measure water and energy efficien-cy, materials used during construction, and design innovation.

John harden news-editor.shorthorn@uta.edu

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The site for the upcoming Delta Upsilon fraternity house on Greek Row and Davis drives. Construction of the new house has been put on hold due to difficulty gaining the funds from banks.

Housing plans for Delta Upsilon can’t seem to beat economyGreeK life

The anticipated new two-story structure would house about 12 members.

AIGA, the professional as-sociation for design, brings a world-renowned designer to the university Thursday.

At 6:30 p.m. in Fine Arts Building room 148, Michael Surtees will present “Unexpected Narratives and creating the right conditions.”

He said his speech has four points: storylines, agile designs, designs today and content — all encompassed in online design and building on available tools.

He said people of different skills will learn from his speech.

“Everyone right now is shar-ing stuff online and expressing themselves,” he said.

The New York City designer is the design director for Daylife.com but has also worked with Sky News, BBC and The Dallas Morning News.

Visual communications se-nior lecturer Pauline Hudel-Smith said this is the first time AIGA has partnered with the university. She said she hopes this is only the beginning of a partnership with the association.

Tickets are available online at the AIGA Dallas/Fort Worth Web site. Tickets will also be available at the door. The event was originally in 2109 Fine Arts Building but because of ticket sales it was moved to 148 Fine Arts Building.

— Dustin L. Dangli

New York City designer to speak Thursday

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three W’sWho: World recognized designer Michael SurteesWhat: Presenting with the Amer-ican Institute of Graphic ArtsWhen: 6:30 p.m. Thursday 148 Fine Arts Building

Tickets are available online at the AIGA DFW Web site for $5 and $10.http://dallas.aiga.org/

Learn more about the speaker before you go:Blog – designnotes.infoProfessional Web site – Michael-surtees.comTwitter - @michaelsurtees

Courtesy Art: Schrickel, Rollins and Associates, Inc.

The UTA Center Street Project’s public plaza includes storm sewers, open space, sidewalks, gardens and park furnishings.

“It’s a challenge to overcome it, but it makes

us better.”

agapito floresformer fraternity president

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 20108 p.m. Texas Hall

Free, but tickets required. Seating is limited.Advance tickets available atwww.utatickets.com

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Co-sponsored by the College of Engineering

Courtesy: Carl Esposito

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